Earthsongs Journal
The Maturing Artist
When Nancy Ori invited me into a collaboration with her, I was very skeptical. I truly did not see how we could collaborate in any meaningful way. But continued conversation over several months developed into an idea about which I am genuinely excited. The review of...
A Creative Time Calls for…CREATIVITY!
The Holidays celebrated at this time of year find nearly everyone tapping into her/ his inner artist. No matter the tradition, creativity flows:
…of gardeners and farmers
In the garden Autumn is a season of removing, of taking away. On the farm, it is a time of harvest; for the gardener, it means a cutting back so flowering plants can consolidate and renew themselves through the colder season. For the farmer, it means gathering...
“…the nothing which is everything.”
Someone cleverly remarked that the Pandemic has reduced us to the same lot as Peasants living in the Middle Ages: “Bake Bread, Avoid the Plague, Revolt Against Tyranny.” How true! I laughed. …but it brought me to think about the...
So Which Garments Don’t Fit Anymore…?
September has unceremoniously arrived. Most of us can hardly believe it…I know I can’t. I thought for sure we would be ‘through the Portal’ by now, on to other things, the new taking shape… But no. “The Portal…calls us to tarry rather than rush through, to accept our...
RECOGNIZING THE PORTAL
We are created to create, to leave the familiar, to cross thresholds and give birth to bold new ideas. We are invited to the borderlands of the known, to imagine a new earth healed not scorched, rested not exploited, and regenerated by human ingenuity and...